The Mars Curiosity rover had to weather a solar storm. Specks seen in the video the rover captured are "caused by charged ...
Martian winds can have quite an impact. ESA's Mars Express has spotted them whipping up sand grains and acting as a cosmic sandblaster, carving out intriguing grooves near Mars's equator. The ridges, ...
The engineering lesson is simple: Sometimes the best observatory is the one already parked at another planet. When an interstellar comet was in a viewing geometry that kept Earth-based telescopes too ...
HiRISE, the most powerful camera to leave Earth's orbit, will take ultra-sharp photographs that cover 3.5-mile-wide swaths of the Martian landscape, returning images with a 20,000-by-60,000 pixel ...
It would really suck to be all alone on Mars at night. The post This Photo of Mars at Night Is Straight Up Haunting appeared ...
The HiRISE orbiter successfully photographed interstellar comet 3I/Atlas during its high-speed journey past the red planet, offering scientists their closest view yet A camera designed to study the ...
Using images from cameras on Mars orbiters, an international research team has discovered structures on Mars that are very similar to classic river deltas on Earth. These are traces of rivers that ...
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A stereo camera operated by the University of Arizona will be carried aboard a Mars orbiter in 2016 as part of a joint program by NASA and the European Space Agency to explore the Red Planet, the UA ...
Cameras developed by 35 students at Northern Arizona University, as part of NASA's Escapade Mission, are on there way to Mars. A 14-year-old won $25,000 for origami. He discovered a pattern that can ...